Composable Platforms part 3

 






What is a Composable Platform?

Definition[1]:

“Composability is a system design principle that deals with the inter-relationships of components. A highly composable system provides components that can be selected and assembled in various combinations to satisfy specific user requirements. In information systems, the essential features that make a component composable are that it be:

·       self-contained (modular): it can be deployed independently – note that it may cooperate with other components, but dependent components are replaceable

·       stateless: it treats each request as an independent transaction, unrelated to any previous request. Stateless is just one technique; managed state and transactional systems can also be composable, but with greater difficulty.

It is widely believed that composable systems are more trustworthy than non-composable systems because it is easier to evaluate their individual parts.”

 

              This is because interfaces between modules are well defined and testing is much easier than in systems which have been patched together.

This sounds easy enough and companies have discussed the benefits of a composable platform, but because these systems must encompass multiple technology levels and areas it has been difficult for them to develop integrated platforms. Branching out from the cluster management and high performance fabric technology areas Paladian Data has used its experience working with analytics partners to create a tool suite that integrates families of tools companies must use together in analytics and IoT environments – the Paladian Composable Platform.

What Does a Composable System Look Like?

The best example of where industry is moving to can be seen in the Industrial IoT (IIoT) environment. Today these environments consist of tens or even hundreds of OT (Operational Technology) silos with proprietary tools and data historians buried in factories. Managing these environments has become a complex and over whelming task. When you have a security issue, factory engineers must use a variety of tools and siloed data to investigate the problem.

With Industry 4.0 this is all changing. Data is being pulled up to a consolidation point through secure IIoT networks using standardized formats with tools like PTC Kepware managing remote controllers and actuators. OSI Pi data historians are accumulating process data measurements. Network security tools like Cisco’s Cyber Vision, and SIEM offerings like Splunk are orchestrating the system security.

So how do you deploy this complex environment in minutes? With Paladian Data’s Composable Platform tools you can select prequalified tools tailored to your particular site needs, modify the deployment to conform to the servers you want to use, set up the security requirements for your network, and deploy the complete system allowing you to focus on getting the most value from your data immediately, confident that have the highest performing environment in the industry.



[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composability


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